Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina is trying to restart executions by dusting off the electric chair after going nearly 10 years without putting a condemned inmate to death. A House Committee voted 14-7 ...

Florida has executed 19 people in 2025, a new state record set under Gov. Ron DeSantis. The number of executions in Florida this year is nearly four times higher than any other state. DeSantis has ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina senators have added a firing squad to the electric chair as alternatives if the state can’t execute condemned inmates via lethal injection. The Senate then approved the ...

Mississippi allows execution by firing squad, but has never used this method. Richard Jordan, Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection.

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. Now, depending on where they're imprisoned, inmates have a ...